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SpareFoot, an online marketplace for self-storage consumers, has partnered with Uboxes, a supplier of factory-direct moving boxes, to create a website where people can purchase packing supplies. SpareFoot users can now buy moving boxes and other...

Sunnyside Self Storage of Surrey, British Columbia, Canada, is now offering its local customers online ordering services for moving and packing supplies from the company’s catalog and will provide same-day delivery within a specific area. It...

By Marc Goodin
The most valuable piece of real estate at your self-storage facility is the two square feet of office counter space where you deal with potential renters. It's worth a million dollars, even $2 million for real go-gett...

By Rob Kaminski
In the self-storage industry, there are a number of myths about buying and selling cardboard boxes, the type customers use for packing and moving and facility operators offer as retail product. Maybe its because ...

By Rob Kaminski
A customer sitting across from me at dinner one night leaned over the white tablecloth and whispered, Rob, the reason Im buying you dinner this time is simple: For years you showed me how to make more money. A lot mo...

By Molly Bilker
When Penny Casassa came on board as a part-time manager at South Harrison Self Storage in Mullica Hill, N.J., one of six facilities operated by Affordable Self Storage Group LLC, she carefully assessed the facilitys ...

By Rob Kaminski
From prehistoric cave paintings to the Las Vegas Strip, mankind has always used signs to identify, communicate, warn, direct and entice. In todays self-storage marketplace, the effective use of signage can spell the ...

By Rob Kaminski
Its amazing how two nearly identical self-storage facilities in the same region can have such different results when it comes to selling ancillary products such as locks, boxes and tape. Why would one report consiste...